Ward Center for Nuclear Sciences records

Collection — Box: 18

Identifier: 16-15-3596

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes reports, minutes of meetings, as built-drawings, manuals, visitor registers, and log books concerning the nuclear reactor in Ward Hall and the Ward Center for Nuclear Sciences. Also a set of slides of the Ward Center.

Dates

1955-2006.

Creator

Cornell University., Ward Center for Nuclear Sciences. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Access Restrictions:

Access to Boxes 6, 9, 13, and part of 19 restricted to the permission of the University Counsel's Office and the University Radiation Safety Officer.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Ward Laboratory was built in the 1960s for instruction and research in the field of nuclear engineering, first in Cornell's School of Applied and Engineering Physics and then as the Nuclear Science and Engineering Program. In 1995 the College of Engineering disbanded the program, but in 1997 the Lab became the Ward Center for Nuclear Sciences, a campus-wide center. Howard Aderhold was the center director from 1962 until 2006. The TRIGA (teaching, research, isotope, General Atomics) Mark II nuclear reactor was decommissioned in 2001.

Extent

16.7 cubic feet. (16.7 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Includes reports, minutes of meetings, as built-drawings, manuals, visitor registers, and log books concerning the nuclear reactor in Ward Hall and the Ward Center for Nuclear Sciences.